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Devils Panties 02/28/2025 (thedevilspanties.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just some additional advertising for todays boycott.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

This can have an effect in exactly two ways:

retailers lose a bit of profit because they cannot optimize their staffing for this one day. They might be a little less profitable because they have one person at work who is not needed, for example. They might also get mad customers the next day when everybody goes back shopping and they haven't prepared for it. Similarly, they might have to throw away a few fresh products and not have them in stock later.
if (and only if) people buy the stuff they need somewhere else instead. If this is about grocery shopping, well, you need groceries at some point. Doesn't matter much for the retailer when you buy it (apart from 1), as long as you buy it consistently at their place.

I support the protest, but if you want to make an impact, use that day to find alternative places to do your shopping in the future.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

yet another classic misdirection from doing things politically to improve the political environment. And yet we wonder why everything sucks so much.

Go improve the political climate.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (27 children)

Retailers don't give a shit about nobody buying anything on a particular day, if they're all back the next.

This is a stupid idea.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I mean the point of it isn't to deprive retailers of one day of profits altogether, it's to show how much a sustained refusal to shop would hurt them. Whether or not it's effective depends on how many people participate.

I don't think it's going to be effective, but I'm not going to be the reason it's not. I can pick up my dish soap tomorrow

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I mean the point of it isn’t to deprive retailers of one day of profits altogether, it’s to show how much a sustained refusal to shop would hurt them. Whether or not it’s effective depends on how many people participate.

yeah but its not a question of whether or not it would hurt them, the answer is yes, you cant make money if people don't buy shit.

Weird little story, but i've never seen a company do any sort of accounting for this kind of problem.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If your protest is convenient it's a shitty protest. I'm sorry, but this is a shitty protest.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I disagree with both the premise and the conclusion. Even if skipping corporate stuff for a day is only a mild inconvenience, that is still obviously not convenient. Second, there's no reason to suspect convenience should strongly impact effectiveness. How much did it inconvenience anyone to boycott South Africa in the 80s?

Maximizing effectiveness for unit of effort is smart. And when a tiny change in share price can make a big difference in CEO compensation, we'd be complete masochists not to use that in our favor. But also even if you're into maximizing pain, if we wanna talk about permanently going after these corporations then it's gotta start somewhere. And it's best to start with getting people to do what's easy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This does literally nothing unless you make it a consistent thing.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I might agree if I believed there was any viable impact here, but even 1mil multiplied by zero is still zero.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That an corporations don't care about their daily numbers unless they are trending. Like, people won't buy stuff today, so they will just go buy the stuff tomorrow. Monthly and quarterly profits took no hit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (28 children)

Fully agree. While I wholeheartedly support the intent of this protest, it is entirely performative for the sake of the participants, not for the sake of actually affecting change.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

My wife told her family and all of them are very enthusiastic to join (20 ish people). Unfortunately I still have trouble convincing my family that Trump shouldn't be allowed to do illegal things

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